Lauren Caruba

About

Lauren Caruba is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News. She focuses on long-term projects that document harm and hold power to account. She specializes in medical/health care reporting and narrative storytelling. She has reported on preventable bleeding deaths in the American trauma system and embedded with medical providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lauren’s work has received numerous accolades, including from Investigative Reporters & Editors, the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Awards, the Online Journalism Awards, Best of the West and the Headliners Foundation of Texas. She is a three-time finalist for the Livingston Awards, which recognize outstanding work by journalists under the age of 35. Her stories have twice been anthologized in the Best American Newspaper Narratives series published by the University of North Texas Press and the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. Previously, she was an investigations and health/medical reporter at the San Antonio Express-News and an investigative fellow at the Houston Chronicle. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2015.Tips: lauren.caruba@dallasnews.com